The Play of Death

von Oliver Pötzsch

It is 1670 and Simon Fronwieser is in the town of Oberammergau to bring his seven-year-old son to boarding school. As he bids his boy a tearful farewell, news comes of a shocking murder: the man who was to play the part of Christ in the towns Passion Play has been found dead, nailed to the sets cross. As there is no doctor in town, Simon is brought in to examine the body.